I grant you she was a decent human being, and a peacemaker at heart. Her death was a tragedy, but she brought it on herself. She was an American and had no business interfering as she did. If she had stopped at the end of her email and continued teaching the Palestinian kids English, then my heart would have bled if the bulldozer ran her over while doing that. But no, she foolishly went out in front of the bulldozer. Nobody should be surprised at the result.
I am really losing patience with protestors. No matter what their stripe, they are usually interfering with the lawful rights of others in this country -- and in the countries of others they are are way out of their league.
I encountered a group of protestors near the building where I work. They say "No War," etc. etc., but they offer no realistic alternative to the President's policy. They are living in a dream world, one of their own imagination, in which reality is the way they would have it to be, not the way it is.
No, the poor unfortunate woman had it right when she wrote of discovering, somewhat first-hand, the degree of evil of which we are still capable. Protestors are unhelpful, because they think that signs and standing in front of bull dozers will make a difference. The only thing that will make a difference is for evildoers to make a 180, or for them to be eliminated.
I fail to see why you think my judgment is unacceptable while you say nothing about people blowing up perfect innocents with their abominable suicide bombing and their other evildoing. |
